Anatoly Salmin, a convicted thief and murderer, is home from prison years ahead of schedule, his reward for volunteering for a suicide mission in Russia’s war in Ukraine – and then managing to survive.

 

Hundreds of convicts recruited into the ranks of Wagner, a private military company tied to the businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, have been killed or severely wounded in Ukraine, where the mercenaries have been tasked with some of Russia’s most desperate campaigns.

 

But a video released last month showed several dozen former convicts – among them murderers, drug dealers and domestic abusers – now heading to their home towns in northern Russia, supposedly having earned pardons by surviving six months in Wagner’s ranks in Ukraine.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/10/wagner-convict-soldiers-return-from-ukraine-russia-mercenary-group

 

A proffesion can get anyone in the cross-hairs of someone like him no need to fear. 

These ads that keep coming across where i quote i wish i knew who put them there they would be in my cross-hairs.

The upside to that is that 6 months ago the prisons in Russia had a clear out.

 

The downside for many was death or serious injury.

 

The real downside is that the survivors are no longer in jail, they have learnt new killing skills, and they are legally free to return to where they committed the crimes in the first place.

Oh great, lets hope not too many of them decide to take advantage of their new found freedom by heading to Thailand!

 

“We started seeing him in town a few weeks ago,” one local resident who has known Salmin for many years told the Guardian. “He is a dangerous man, we all know what he did to his friend. I told my kids not to run around alone in the coming days.

Good move Putin now after honing their skills of killing and rape in Ukraine they can come home to put their skills to work!genius!(not)